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Herbert Smith Freehills launches global digital legal delivery practice
Four hundred-strong practice brings together alternative legal services and tech teams
‘A platform like no other’ – A&O Shearman goes live
Transatlantic merger creates global giant with nearly 4,000 lawyers and $3.5bn revenue
Mayer Brown to split from bulk of greater China arm, according to reports
Nikkei Asia reports that Hong Kong lawyers will revive historic Johnson Stokes & Master brand
Greenberg, Goodwin shepherd Ono Pharma’s $2.4bn Deciphera acquisition
Greenberg counsels Ono in deal to expand Japanese group’s oncology portfolio and US presence
Kirkland hits Goodwin again for US funds lawyers
Four more lawyers join across US as partners after quintet defected from Goodwin in February
Clifford Chance elects 29 new partners in latest promotions round
Eleven women included in round that sees firm exceed ethnicity targets for third year running
Kirkland, Latham shepherd Thoma Bravo’s £4.3bn Darktrace acquisition
Kirkland acts for marquee client Thoma Bravo as Latham counsels UK-listed cyber security company
HFW hits Eversheds Sutherland for international arbitration team in Paris
Partners Julien Fouret and Gaëlle Le Quillec join alongside a senior associate
DLA Piper unveils 63-strong partner promotion round
Trimmed down cohort brings firm closer to goal of 30% female partnership by 2025
Goodwin swoops on Travers for London private equity partner duo
Ian Keefe and George Weevil latest partners to switch firms as lateral hiring spree across City continues
Baker McKenzie hires nine Munger Tolles partners in Los Angeles
Global giant targets West Coast deal work with 17-strong transactional team including two counsel joining as partners
Paul Hastings opens in Boston with private equity team from Sidley Austin
Sidley’s former private equity co-head, Alexander Temel, joins as global PE co-chair alongside team of lawyers
Ashurst unveils another record promotions round as 30 make partner
Women make up half of internal partner promotions at Anglo Australian firm over five-year rolling average
Women make up 60% of newly promoted Eversheds Sutherland international partners
Forty-strong round marks third consecutive year women have outnumbered men across UK, EMEA and Asia promotions
Addleshaw Goddard makes up 26 in record partner promotion round
Women make up majority of round for firm in strong growth mode
Dentons rehires partner from Faegre Drinker to lead UKIME restructuring team
Sue Moore returns to global giant having earlier led Stephenson Harwood’s global finance practice
Reed Smith, Shoosmiths lead on Concord’s £1.1bn Hipgnosis takeover
DLA Piper and Latham also called in for deal to save embattled song fund
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord in merger talks to create $1.6bn firm
Combination would create top 30 US firm with more than 1,700 lawyers
Norton Rose Fulbright grows revenue 8.3% to $2.26bn
PEP soars by 32.7% as equity partner ranks shrink by more than 100 lawyers
Paul Hastings, Weil called in for sale of majority stake in Edinburgh Airport
Paul Hastings acts for buyer Vinci in £1.27bn deal as Weil counsels seller Global Infrastructure Partners